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WADESBORO — The Anson County government experienced a cyberattack over the first weekend of May, which turned out to be more serious than initially thought. The most recent update from the county stated that does not appear to be any employee or citizen personal data compromised from the malware attack, but it did however limit some county services including the Human Resources, GIS Mapping, Public Health Clinical Services, telephone and email. Most of these services are estimated to return in one to two weeks, but there is no timetable for telephone service and the GIS Mapping tool, accord...

WADESBORO — Anson County Commissioner Vancine Sturdivant was convicted on March 11 for injuring notices and advertisements from moving an election sign during the 2018 election. On October 17 of 2018, Sturdivant allegedly moved a Todd Moore campaign sign outside the Wadesboro precinct during early voting. Moore, unaffiliated candidate for Commissioner District 4 at the time, reported the incident both to the Board of Elections and the Wadesboro Police Department. Sturdivant plead not guilty. She was originally charged with “remove/etc. politic sign violation,” which is a misdemeanor. Af...

WADESBORO — A Wadesboro police officer is under investigation after a photo emerged of the officer holding up a hand sign considered a white supremacist symbol in a picture taken during the senior night ceremony prior to the Richmond Senior High School varsity boys’ soccer game Monday evening. The picture, which was provided to the Daily Journal Wednesday evening, shows Officer Thomas Luckey standing alongside his wife and their son, a RSHS soccer player. In the photo, Luckey and his wife are displaying the “OK” hand sign at their waists, with the thumb and index finger forming a circ...

WADESBORO — Anson County Board of Education members gathered for a special meeting on Feb. 9 to discuss the outline of students returning to in-person classes in March. The board previously voted to bring students back to schools starting on March 1, but this special meeting allowed each board member to discuss their ideas and concern for how an in-person return would look. The board came to the agreement of bringing back all students in a two cohort Plan B. Superintendent Howard McLean was instructed to return to the board on Feb. 22 with a detailed description of the return. He will go ov...

The Lilesville Fire Department responded to a dryer fire at Hornwood Inc. Fire Chief Marty Morton Jr. declined to comment on details of the fire after speaking…